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Iran said on Saturday that it had successfully tested a new medium-range missile in defiance of warnings from Washington that such activities were grounds for abandoning their landmark nuclear deal . "There is no doubt that Iran is in the ascendancy in the geopolitical battle for influence in the Middle East. Iran's ongoing efforts to boost its ballistic missile capabilities will only heighten the sense of insecurity among regional rivals", he said. Read More

Eman Ahmed , who was referred to as " the world's heaviest woman ", died in a hospital in Abu Dhabi on Monday. She died just a week after celebrating her 37th birthday. Selim alleged the doctors' claims of her weight loss were false. The say that she subsequently suffered cerebral stroke, which left her bedridden until April this year when surgery enabled her to lose a massive 299kg. Read More

McCain is the second Republican to oppose the measure, possibly dooming the effort of party leaders to enact it. President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday that McCain had "let Arizona down" by opposing the bill. There could still be a vote on Graham-Cassidy. "But that has not been the case". "Nobody has really offered me that, to say, 'Well, we could spend less, ' " Paul said. Read More

Manchester City take on Crystal Palace at the Etihad on Saturday 23 September hoping to build upon a rich vein of form. He now has the highest proportion of goals to minutes in Premier League history and looks likely to not lose that record any time soon. Read More

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson how Russian Federation could confirm his words that Moscow interfered in the American election process, Lavrov said Tillerson replied: "I cannot show you anything because this is confidential information'". Read More

U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Paul Caruso said the new temblor was an aftershock of the 8.1 quake, and after a jolt of that size even buildings left standing can be more vulnerable. Rescuers race against the clock early Saturday to reach possible survivors trapped inside an office building in the Roma Norte neighbourhood of Mexico City . Read More

Singh said India would not be breaching any worldwide law by deporting Rohingya people as it was not a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. Space at established refugee camps in Bangladesh has all but been exhausted, with new arrivals hacking away trees and other vegetation anywhere they can to erect shelters from the monsoon rain. Read More

Catalonia , which wants to hold a vote on October 1 to split from Spain , has its own police called Mossos d'Esquadra, though the state police Guardia Civil has quarters throughout the region and often works alongside them. Student union representatives urged the protesters to remain over the weekend. Catalan authorities vowed to hold the referendum despite the court's ruling. Read More

It also was not clear whether the drone was meant to enter Israeli-controlled airspace or had accidentally approached it. He said if any other attempts to violate Israel's sovereignty are made, "we will respond swiftly". In April , the IDF used a Patriot missile to intercept a Syrian drone that flew into Israeli airspace . Gen. Zvika Haimovich, the commander of Israel's aerial defense. Read More

Whilst the game was rain affected, the Australians would've been disappointed to crumble in their response, with only Glenn Maxwell standing up in the chase. 4 and the team management is now backing Manish Pandey for the slot. Sometimes things don't come off for you but I try and stay in the same zone everytime I come out to play. Read More

She said the press office would not ordinarily provide this detail on a live investigation. Police are continuing to search a house in Sunbury-on-Thames - home to Penelope and Ronald Jones , aged 71 and 88 respectively, who previously received MBEs for services to children and families. Read More

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a statement on September 20, which said that it learned in August 2017 of a cyberattack previously detected in 2016 might have allowed illicit gain through trading. A top USA financial regulator faces questions about its preparation for cyber attacks, after disclosing a breach of its database of company filings. Read More

The cellular operators association of India (COAI) has called the interconnect regulation disastrous and has chose to go to the court. Drop in the rates of IUC means that every telecom operator will have to pay less to other telecom operators for outbound calls from their network. Read More

Puigdemont reiterated his call for Catalans to "defend democracy" and to vote en masse in the referendum. The raids came after the local government vowed to continue with an October 1 referendum on Catalonia's independence, a vote Madrid says is illegal and unconstitutional. Read More

According to CNN , the new warrant was related to an FBI investigation into contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians. Two of those sources say the evidence is not conclusive. "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my " wires tapped " in Trump Tower just before the victory". Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort talks to reporters at the Republican National Convention past year in Cleveland. Read More

The NHC said the British Virgin Islands were at risk of being hit by a risky storm surge with destructive waves raising the water level up to 9ft (2.7m). The National Hurricane Center has a page updating every few hours with the latest watches and warnings for Maria. Dominica is bracing for what could be a direct hit from the storm. Read More

Between this and his impressive handshake mindgames , Macron seems to think he has Trump all figured out. This had been put right in July when Mr Trump visited Paris. A Huffington Post report from March revealed that Trump's inaugural committee was "seriously considering adding military vehicles to the Inaugural Parade". Read More

Although oil prices hovered around $46 to $49 per barrel, gas prices have shot up 46 cents in Florida, 55 cents in Georgia and 46 cents in Tennessee since August 22. "Plus, the threat of any new storms making landfall in the United States would compromise the collapse", he said. The lowest national average in 2017 was $2.23 on July 5. Read More

The latest college football national championship odds were released by Las Vegas sports book Bovada on Monday. The Wolverines were listed with 14/1 odds after Week 2, but that number is down to 20/1 after Week 3. Vanderbilt moves in after moving to 3-0 with a win over a solid Kansas State team. The Commodores host Alabama in Week 4. Defending national champion Clemson is second with 11/2 odds, while USC (7/1) and Oklahoma (8/1) are close behind the Tigers. Read More

No-one with refugee status "is supposed to have an assault rifle", he said. "So far, we have counted 31 dead and at least 105 injured, 15 of them seriously", the refugee said. The town hosts some 2,005 refugees and asylum seekers from Burundi, most of whom arrived in 2015. Friday's clashes erupted in Kamanyola in Congo's South Kivu province when Burundian refugees and asylum-seekers protested the expulsion of four of their countrymen from Congo, Sidikou said, citing "credible reports" ... Read More

Earlier this month, aid workers from Caritas Bangladesh's regional office, Caritas Chittagong, visited Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazila in the Cox's Bazar district. Although the recruiting of terrorists to Rakhine was still new, they were gathering information on the matter, including the detention of a 38-year-old man from Malacca on September 10, he said. Read More

It's unclear why the president would choose this moment to mock Clinton, whom he defeated in the presidential election last November. The footage is edited to make it appear as though Clinton is hit in the back with a golf ball before her fall. Read More

The bill was introduced just before President Trump's inauguration and met opposition from some in California law enforcement, including many local sheriffs who lobbied California Gov. The Sheriffs' Association is still against the bill. Democrats used supermajorities in the state Capitol to pass the bill they viewed as important to highlighting California's stance on shielding its estimated 2.3 million undocumented immigrants from Immigration and Customs Enforcement . Read More

Dutiful to the end, the spacecraft sampled Saturn's atmosphere Friday morning as it made its final plunge . The Space agency added, from that point, the spacecraft will begin to burn up like a meteor. 15, 2017, in Pasadena after confirmation of Cassini's demise. On its way through the gas giant's upper atmosphere, Cassini pulsed its thrusters to keep its antennae pointed at Earth in order to transmit scientific data until tis final moments. Read More

It was a freaky turn of events for a president who's been inclined recently to turn to Democrats to jump-start legislative imperatives, and it came just days after Trump and the Democratic leaders agreed to back a three-month extension of the debt limit in order to speed federal financial assistance to hurricane-ravaged Southern states. Read More

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a statement on September 20, which said that it learned in August 2017 of a cyberattack previously detected in 2016 might have allowed illici... Read More

The cellular operators association of India (COAI) has called the interconnect regulation disastrous and has chose to go to the court. Drop in the rates of IUC means that every telecom operator wil... Read More

Puigdemont reiterated his call for Catalans to "defend democracy" and to vote en masse in the referendum. The raids came after the local government vowed to continue with an October 1 referendum ... Read More

The NHC said the British Virgin Islands were at risk of being hit by a risky storm surge with destructive waves raising the water level up to 9ft (2.7m). The National Hurricane Center has a pa... Read More

Between this and his impressive handshake mindgames , Macron seems to think he has Trump all figured out. This had been put right in July when Mr Trump visited Paris. A Huffington Post report ... Read More

According to CNN , the new warrant was related to an FBI investigation into contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians. Two of those sources say the evidence is not conclusive. "Terrible! J... Read More

The latest college football national championship odds were released by Las Vegas sports book Bovada on Monday. The Wolverines were listed with 14/1 odds after Week 2, but that number is down to 20/... Read More

Although oil prices hovered around $46 to $49 per barrel, gas prices have shot up 46 cents in Florida, 55 cents in Georgia and 46 cents in Tennessee since August 22. "Plus, the threat of any new stor... Read More

No-one with refugee status "is supposed to have an assault rifle", he said. "So far, we have counted 31 dead and at least 105 injured, 15 of them seriously", the refugee said. The town hosts some 2,... Read More

Earlier this month, aid workers from Caritas Bangladesh's regional office, Caritas Chittagong, visited Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazila in the Cox's Bazar district. Although the recruiting of terrorists to R... Read More